Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines
Northeastern University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +5 more institutions
Abstract
There is extensive, yet fragmented, evidence of gender differences in academia suggesting that women are underrepresented in most scientific disciplines and publish fewer articles throughout a career, and their work acquires fewer citations. Here, we offer a comprehensive picture of longitudinal gender differences in performance through a bibliometric analysis of academic publishing careers by reconstructing the complete publication history of over 1.5 million gender-identified authors whose publishing career ended between 1955 and 2010, covering 83 countries and 13 disciplines. We find that, paradoxically, the increase of participation of women in science over the past 60 years was accompanied by an increase…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 175.45
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 66
Authors
4- JHJunming HuangCorresponding
Northeastern University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Princeton University
- AJAlexander J. Gates
Northeastern University
- RSRoberta Sinatra
Institute for Scientific Interchange, IT University of Copenhagen
- ABAlbert-Ĺaszló Barabási
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Northeastern University, Harvard University
Topics & keywords
- Inequality
- Gender inequality
- Sociology
- Demographic economics
- Political science
- Social science
- Economics
- Mathematics
- Gender equality